I am currently reading about the scalability of Ethereum but I cannot really understand the difference between some terms that occur often.
What is the relation between the terms:
Layer 1
Layer 2
on-...

Hi there I was wondering 2 things. In order for a plasma chain to work on an asset do you need a corrosponding ERC20/ERC721 token on the ethereum mainchain first? I am thinking of using BTCRelay type ...

In plasma cash, if Alice sends the same coin to both Bob and Charlie and they both try and cash out, who gets the coin?
Does the plasma sidechain have to periodically commit its plasma blocks to the ...

Plasma white paper (page 19):
"The fraud proofs ensure that a coalition of participants are not able to create fraudulent
blocks without getting penalized. In the event a fraudulent block is detected ...

Diagram extracted from the whitepaper, page 7:
Let's imagine there would be an extra layer, that is, a Blockchain at the 4th Tree Depth. In the event of Byzantine failure, can Alice exit to the Root ...

In Layer 2 Solution of Ethereum (State Channels), what I don't get is what about nonces? If we signed a state channel Tx with 13 nonce and don't put it on the chain for now, then if I make another Tx ...

As I understand, privacy on of the key features or Raiden.
Let's say that I want fast transactions but at the same time I want to have the transparent transactions history for an independent observer,...

The specifications are changing much faster than i had thought in this space. I have implemented MVP for my project, and by the time I had completed - the community was discussing Plasma Cash. I feel ...

Is there any risk the the hard fork required for sharding or Plasma to take effect on the Ethereum network will cause compatibility issues for contracts already deployed?
Will the protocol in place ...

Digging into Plasma talks, I see that that Plasma chains can make periodic commitments to the root chain. Assuming only a single tree depth with users paying validators a fee per transaction, would ...

I am reading the plasma white paper and I don't understand the following part :
The problematic sentence is :
"Additionally, signiﬁcant scalability is achieved by minimizing the funds represented in ...

I'm new to the blockchain space and I am trying to grasp some fundamentals before delving into programming smart contracts. Please correct me if I am wrong regarding any of the following. This is just ...

I have been looking up scaling issues associated with Ethereum.
I have not found any resources that give an easy to understand definition of the problem.
I am aware that there are efforts like Raiden, ...

I'll explain the situation :
I want to log Web2 actions onto a blockchain - say, an access log.
On top of that, I'm assuming the content supplied to the browser has passed many hands before reaching ...

From my understanding Ethereum's plasma is similar to Ardor's parent child chain feature, but what are the main differences from these two technologies?
Ardor is fully proof of stake and it lets you ...